Mother of Manchester bombing victim speaks out against Eminem's 'vile' new freestyle

More than 800 mourners attended a memorial ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on a Manchester arena

A mother who lost her daughter to the Manchester bombing last year took aim at Eminem (Marshall Mathers) for “freestyling” about the terror attack.

The 46-year-old was Not Afraid to stir up some trouble last week when he released an 11-minute track entitled Kick Off. He boldly and unnecessarily called out Ariana Grande by referring to the tragic event that took 22 innocent lives at her Manchester Arena concert last May.

After hearing the song. Charlotte Hodgson, mother of the late 15-year-old Olivia Campbell-Hardy, said the rap was “disgusting.”

In an interview with Manchester Evening News, she branded Mathers as a “vile human” for being so disrespectful to the victims and those affected by the attack.

In the track, Mathers raps from the perspective of the assailant Salman Ramadan Abedi, claiming he was “lost” and “brainwashed” to commit the horrific crime.

He says, “Squashed in-between a brainwashing machine, like an Islamic regime / A jihadist extreme, Radical suicide bomber that’s seeing / Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening / And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving / Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region”

As a “prologue” for his new video, Mathers said “I’ve always looked at battle rap as competition or war and the main objective is to destroy… Completely f**king obliterate your opponent by saying whatever the f**k you can, to get a reaction from the crowd.”

His remarks certainly got a reaction as thousands (including Arianators) cried outrage over Twitter after seeing the video.

Eminem is my favourite artist in music, but I felt like mentioning what happened in Manchester was to far.. maybe because I was personally affected by it I’m not sure

I have never and will never understand why Eminem is so famous and praised. His lyrics are trash, as well as disturbing, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic. His lyrics about Ari and Manchester are just the lowest of low. Him and “musicians” like him are why I hate

Hodgson showed her gratitude towards Grande for organizing the ‘We Are Manchester’ benefit concert last September. “Ariana did a very respectful song in memory of everyone there and that was lovely,” she said. “A fantastic gesture.”

As of this writing, neither Mathers nor Grande have commented on the matter.